From all that Granth had heard and seen, the fierce folk of the north bent the knee to no man.

Djinns were tall, fierce folk, with reddish skin and hair ... djinns lived in Zark ... desert and sand.

A fierce folk, too, who measured nobility by their own standards.

The green elves are a fierce, unpredictable folk, and they were ill-treated by the old royal family of Tethyr.

Ael thought longingly of her own crew of Bloodwing; fierce, dogged folk tried in a hundred battles and faithful to her... but that faithfulness was why her enemies in the High Command had had her transferred from Bloodwing in the first place.

"These plains barbarians are fierce folk; they take more kindly to edged metal than robes of state, where our own people, I think, would esteem them equally."

They are fierce folk when roused.

"We are not a fierce folk, but we do not forget."